This year's favorites include Russian Evgeni Plushenko, Brian Joubert of France and Evan Lysacek of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Once the shuttle is retired this year, the only way for the United States to get astronauts into orbit will be on Russian Soyuz rockets.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Russian officials say this bombing was the first deadly terrorist attack in Russia outside of the North Caucasus in five years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

But Pavel Felgenhauer says Russia cannot afford large-scale rearmament either and that Russian authorities have not reconciled this contradiction.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

During a Poltava symposium in Moscow this past June many Russian historians said their country liberated Ukraine from the Swedes.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Seoul's main envoy on the nuclear issue, Wi Sung-lac, is scheduled to meet with his Russian counterpart in Moscow later this week.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

(Speaking in Russian) He says in some aspects, Russia is putting slight pressure on its partners, by saying this or that is unacceptable.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The current treaty expired earlier this month, and senior U.S.and Russian officials say they expect to reach a new accord in early January.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

For this character - Russian physicist Ivan Vanko - the battle is about honor and respect.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

They all have been trained in the Russian style this is way you've done this, so it's the way you always will do it,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

U.S.and Russian negotiators resumed talks in Geneva this week aimed to wrap up a new nuclear disarmament treaty to replace START, which expired in December.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

This follows a documentary on Russian state-run television alleging that Poland had made agreements with Nazi Germany, which planned an invasion of the Soviet Union.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Mr.Obama is scheduled to meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow this July.

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

Meanwhile, Russia has pulled out of ministerial talks with NATO scheduled for later this month to protest the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from its mission at alliance headquarters in Brussels.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

He notes that is an optimistic figure. Economic figures recently released by the Russian Federal Statistics Service show the GDP declined in the first quarter of this year by 9.5 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

Earlier this month, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced a new strategy to confront the causes of violence in the North Caucasus by focusing on efforts to improve economic conditions in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Clinton's comments at a joint press event with the Uruguayan leader were the highest-level expression of U.S.concern thus far about a Venezuelan arms buildup that gained momentum with an announcement this week that the South American state will buy Russian battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The decision to pursue talks , the treaty," replacing the START-1 treaty was reached during a London meeting earlier this month (April 3) between President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev - the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08